Brien McMahon High School
| Brien McMahon High School | |
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| Location | |
| 300 Highland Ave. Norwalk, CT 06854 |
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| Information | |
| Type | Public |
| Motto | Home of the Senators |
| Established | 1960 |
| Principal | Suzanne Brown Koroshetz |
| Faculty | approx. 89 |
| Enrollment | approx. 1,700 |
| Colors Mascot |
Red, white and blue Senator |
| Website | http://portal.norwalkps.org/schools/bmhs/ |
Brien McMahon High School is a secondary school located in Norwalk, Connecticut, USA. It is named after Brien McMahon, a former United States Senator from Norwalk. The school's mascot is a Senator with the school colors being red, white, and blue. The school's first senior class graduated in 1962. The current principal is Suzanne Brown Koroshetz.
The school's crosstown rival is Norwalk High School; they compete in an annual Thanksgiving Day football game. The boys' lacrosse team was the Division 2 State Champion in 2000 and Division 1 runner-up in 2005. The football team was State Champion in 1994. The girls' lacrosse team was Division 2 State Champion runner-up in 2007. The baseball team was Class LL State Champion runner-up in 2009 and was the FCIAC Central Division Champion in 1998 and 2006. Brien McMahon is a member of the FCIAC athletic conference.
The school's marching band, the Marching Senators, is known for its ability in competition. It performs several times each year in prestigious venues such as MetLife Stadium. They have also won several New England Championships, in 2013 and 2015.
The Center for Global Studies is a magnet school within Brien McMahon High School. This is a magnet program for students in Fairfield County who want to learn Arabic, Chinese, or Japanese languages, and the respective culture and history. A Middle Eastern Studies program was introduced in fall of 2006.
Constructed in 1957, Brien McMahon High School first enrolled students during the 1958-1959 school year. The first graduating class was 1962. In 2006 the school had a huge reconstruction that turned it into the glass behemoth that is it today. Unlike its rival, Norwalk High, McMahon was not designed by a prison architect but instead by Swanke Hayden Connell Architects.
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